Callicutt’s lawsuit dismissed

A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit filed by convicted murderer De Von Callicutt against six Albany police officers.

Callicutt, 22, the jailed-for-life gunman who killed University at Albany student Richard Bailey in 2008, sought $160,000 in damages for the “physical, emotional and mental injuries” he claimed he suffered following his arrest on Orange Street in Albany on Nov. 30, 2008.

That arrest was unrelated to Callicutt’s murder of Bailey, 22, who Callicutt shot in the head at South Lake Avenue and Yates Street about 11:20 p.m. on Oct. 20, 2008.

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Now maybe this poor misunderstood thug can suffer from the “physical, emotional and mental injuries” in anonymity in a jail cell for the rest of his life. Maybe even play Juliet to Porco’s – nah, never mind……

Despite his crimes, he had a right to file the lawsuit. One had nothing to do with the other. If the facts of the lawsuit did support his claims then it would have gone forward. That was not the case.

Additionally, try googling “innocent man freed from prison” and see how many results you get.

The results include:

-Convicted of rape in 1974 but exonerated by DNA evidence in 2009
-Innocent man freed after 35 years in Prison.
-North Carolina man who has been in prison for four years, even after his accuser recanted her story…
- a man has been found innocent of murder after spending nearly twenty years of his life behind bars.

I am NOT saying this guy is innocent, but the fact is our justice system is not perfect and mistakes can be made. We cannot blindly deny our prisoners the protection of our constitution, because not all of them are guilty.